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Note: Massimo Ulissi was born at home in the small village of Poggio San
Vittorino, a small village on the outskirts of Teramo (about 100 miles to
the east of Rome). He had at least five male siblings.
As an adult Massimo later lived in Putignano, a few kilometers north of
Teramo. He made his living as a mezzadro (a farmer who worked the fields
of another and splits the harvest with the ower). One of the families
that he worked for had the name of Ciccone. On his marriage application
of 1880 he is referred to as "Massimo Di Ulisse."
Massimo had seven children, all of them males and the oldest of which was
a mere 16 in the 1897. In that year, at about the age of 50 and living
in the town of Putignano, Massimo went to Rome for medical treatment,
probably for lung cancer, never to return to the land of his birth. In
1897 Massimo died and was buried, likely in a pauper's grave, in Rome.
After he died, Massimo's wife, Luisa Taraschi, and her seven sons were
told that they were no longer welcome as tenant farmers (mezzadri) on
this property. The family then moved to a hilltop location called
Frondi, a hilltop overlooking, and not more than two kilometers from, the
small village of Valle San Giovanni. She and her sons were to become
"Valaroli" (a dialect word refering to one who lives in Valle San
Giovanni). Luisa worked as a housekeeper for the a family by the name of
Aceti. They also raised turkeys there. In 1902 the family moved another
another suburb, Fiumicello, yet closer to Valle San Giovanni.
Each of Massimo Ulissi's children went to the western hemisphere to live.
Six went to the USA and one lived in South American and Canada. After
being forced to move back to Italy, one son, Dionisio, lived the majoity
of his adult years in Italy. Three sons, Dionisio, Davide, and Felice,
are buried in Italy.
Had cousin Alouisio. May have named his son after this person.
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